doubled up as dental practitioners. They used their fingers and sometimes nail-pliers for extracting teeth

popularly known as Capitan Chen-Cheng

The first Filipino Dentist, who was skilled at carving ivory dentures and became partners with Monsieur M. Fertri He had his wife for his assistant. She was also skilled in gold craftsmanship.

in 1858 he was a skilled French dentist from Hong Kong who came to Manila and built their dental practice in Quiapo

Spanish regime paved the way for the "tooth pullers" to perform a tooth extraction, giving importance to skills over license since no law governs the practice of Dentistry in the Philippines. Not a legally established profession.

tooth pullers

First Filipino granted a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree DDS, University of Pennsylvania (1893)

Specialized in root canal therapy, Unibersidad Central de Madrid (1895) First Filipino appointed in the Board of Dentistry (1903)

authorized the Provost Marshall General of the city of Manila to establish a board requiring all unregistered dental practitioners who wish to continue practicing dentistry, to pass an examination and subsequently be issued licenses called Patente, which is a writ or order in writing conferring exclusive right and privilege to practice dentistry

, which is a writ or order in writing conferring exclusive right and privilege to practice dentistry

The change from a military to a civil government, the Islands were placed under a governing body.It was this body, which, in 1903, passed the famous Act No. 593

the philippine commission in 1903, passed the famous act?

First Dental Law

Created the Board of Dental Examiners. The members of this Board were: Dr. Robert T. Olliver, chairman: Dr. Wallace G. Skidmore, secretary-treasurer; and Dr. Antonio Vergel de Dios, member.

First Licensure Examination was held on _______

Headed investigating body and did not recognize UST and PDC. Thru the effort of Dr. Ottofy, the Board approved and recognized the UP School of Dentistry

Second Filipino to earn a DDS degree

Organized the first Filipino dental organization in 1908: Sociedad Dental De Filipinas

Father of Philippine Dentistry

First president of Sociedad Dental de Filipinas (SDF

First Lady Dentist in the Philippines

EDITED THE FIRST DENTAL JOURNAL; THE ODONTOLOGIA FILIPINA. (1916) LATER, MORE DENTAL SCHOOLS WERE ESTABLISHED IN THE COUNTRY. THESE SCHOOLS WERE: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CENTRO ESCOLAR UNIVERSITY (1925) AND THE MANILA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (1929

THE FIRST PRESIDENT WAS DR. FRANCISCO TECSON (1924) THIS ORGANIZATION PUBLISHED ITS OFFICIAL ORGAN, REVIEW WITH DR. ELADIO ALDECOA, EDITOR.

DEVELOPMENT IN DENTAL EDUCATION PROGRESSED AS THE 1929 PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW KNOWN AS ACT NO. ______ LENGTHENING THE DENTAL COURSE FROM 3 TO 4 YEARS

ENACTED A RECIPROCITY PROVISION FORBIDDING FOREIGN DENTISTS FROM PRACTICING IN THE PHILIPPINES IF THEY CAME FROM COUNTRIES WHICH DID NOT GRANT SAME PRIVILEGE TO FILIPINO DENTISTS.

THE UNITED STATES' DENTAL EDUCATION ADOPTED A MINIMUM 2-YEAR PRE-DENTAL COURSE AS A PRE-REQUIREMENT FOR THE STUDY OF DENTISTRY. THIS GREATLY DISTURBED THE PHILIPPINE DENTAL SCHOOLS SET-UP.

Periodontal disease became rampant.

During the Chaotic war in the country, Filipino dentists remained ignorant as to the advances made in the field of dentistry in the United States. So, when the United States and Armed Forces Liberated the Philippines, dentists began to be active again and the two organizations that existed before the war were finally unified and the Philippine Dental Association was born

The official organ of the organization which was the Journal of the ________________ made its first issue in January 1948

The official organ of the organization which was the Journal of the Philippine Dental Association made its first issue in _________

THE PHILIPPINE COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE WAS OPENED AND LATER RENAMED THE COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST. IN THE VISAYAN ISLANDS THREE INSTITUTIONS WERE FOUNDED. THESE WERE: SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGES, ILOILO CITY COLLEGES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN AGUSTIN.

First PDA president after the merger

first Filipino female dentist

first female PDA president

Republic Act No. 481. separating the Dental Corps from the Medical Service and creating it as a separato technical service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.